Author Sebastian Faulks has agreeably announced that James Bond will get back behind the wheel of a Bentley for next year's literary celebration of the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth - entitled Devil May Care.
According to the Telegraph, Faulks confirmed 007 will fire up a "battleship grey" example of the marque, the same …

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Softly softly......

Such a shame, Yousef, that Volkswagen did not require Veyron owners to be XXXXtra Special too........ and be prepared to drive a Teutonic Precision course in whatever Creative Business Enterprise they were fronting/leading. On any scale, it must be the most potent PR weapon never used, although I imagine the difficulty would be in them knowing who would be a Worthy Champion of ITs Deutsche Mark as there are just so many cowboys out there

Car with driver?

I thought that James Bond worked for MI6 as a secret agent, not the bleeding foreign office as a visiting head of state!!!

Maybe the author mixed Century House and Buck House?

The next James Bond, with Prince Harry as Terminator in a Chauffeur driven Roller equipped with laser cannons shot from Spirit of Ecstasy's eyes, and getting calls from Q(e2) telling him to please pay attention...

Nationality..

DB9 aaarrgghhh

A DBS goddamnit, not a DB9!

Anyways...you want him to drive something british? Then give him a Morgan, a Noble or even better: an Ariel Atom! THAT would let him outmanouver just about everything there is. Downside would be the lack of room for all his gadgets.

Bond loyalists

Alot of lol here...

I have the *perfect* idea that will satisfy everyone here - Bond: Licence to kill (carbon). He walks, runs, rides a bike to get to places. Plants trees to try and be carbon neutral, all the while still being sexed up, etc.. :)

@Damien

Not stealing

IIRC Vickers sold Rolls Royce cars to VW, but the name was never theirs to sell. The real owners (That'd be Rolls Royce aero engines) are very pally with BMW so VW got the company and BMW got the name.

Bah!

T-series? Feh! Just a Roller with a different grill. Long long ago (mid-1970s) there was a minor fad for throwing away the rusted-out bodies of Mark VI Bentleys and replacing them with something of vaguely Vintage appearance. Even /that/ would be preferable to putting Bond James Bond into a T-series...

This reminds me of a film

Like it, 007 licence to Recycle

Enter James in cotton suit (environmentally friendly & fairtrade) orders an Appletini shaken & not stirred (Drink responsibly) then goes outside for a new low tar Menthol Senior Service (OK he shouldn't smoke but he forgot his patches).

To avoid Global devestation he gives Jaws a fixed penalty notice for littering bits of dead CIA agent everywhere, overcomes Blofeld with a friendly hug, converts the solar death ray to a new electricity station using just a hair grip whilst hanging almost an inch off the ground without a safety harness and then he drives off in his Toyota Prius with his new life partner Mr Kid dramatically jumping a small speed bump as he goes.

... enter James Bond in a hula skirt woven from willow withies...

@SoupDragon

Can you buy good product placement in a 007 film?

I was considering a BMW until bond end up in one and it was so out of character, they lost points on my comparison and I ended up with their competition with no regrets. I wonder how many other sales were lost due to trying to fit a round peg in a square hole?

@ Mr. Larrington

"Long long ago (mid-1970s) there was a minor fad for throwing away the rusted-out bodies of Mark VI Bentleys and replacing them with something of vaguely Vintage appearance."

That would actually be very much in keeping (kind of) with Bond. As I recall at least one of his Bentleys was one that had been married to a tree, scraped off it, straightened out, the bodywork junked and custom coachwork in battleship grey fitted.